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Otokuni-dera Temple

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  • Otokuni-dera Temple

  • Otokuni-dera Temple
    • Nagaokakyo until a capital moves from Heijokyo to Heiankyo was located in here Otokuni.
    • Although it will move from a capital to Kyoto in only ten years, production of grand Miyakonojo was advanced, and the capital calmed the Otokuni temple, and importance was quieted and attached to it.
    • It is said in the old reasonable temple which is existing in the Otokuni area that Shoutokutaishi opened.

The peonyal leaves of Otokuni-dera.

    The Peony of Otokuni-dera Temple

  • This temple is famous also as a temple of a peony, and it is considered as beginning that two stocks of buttons were contributed from Chokoku-ji which is head temple.
  • About 2,000 stocks of flowers will make a large flower bloom from the end of April early in May.

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    Access to Otokuni-dera Temple

  • [Address]
  •     14-7 3-cyome Imazato Nagaokakyo-city Kyoto Prefecture
  • [Access]
  •     Hankyu Railway : 20 minutes walk from Nagaoka-Tenjin station
  •     Hankyu Bus : 5 minutes walk from Yakushi-do Bus stop

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  • [The link to a website]
  •     The website of "Otokuni-dera"(Japanese)

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